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>if you are meditating or thinking about work, are you bored? You are doing those things to escape boredom. The idea isn’t to stay in a perpetual state of bore
by filoleg 7y ago
>if you are meditating or thinking about work, are you bored?
You are doing those things to escape boredom. The idea isn’t to stay in a perpetual state of boredom. The point is to induce boredom, so that it pushes you towards doing things you wouldn’t normally do, in order to escape it.
- criddell 7y agoI suppose if I dedicated enough time to it (like a multi-day silent retreat), boredom would eventually come.
- Hoasi 7y ago> The point is to induce boredom Still doesn't sound like a great idea.
- filoleg 7y agoSeems to work for a lot of people, including me. "Inducing boredom" doesn't mean "sit down in your apartment like you normally would, but force yourself to do nothing and get bored just because." I always understood it as "put yourself in an environment with limited options, so that you would feel more encouraged to do something productive/creative that you always wanted to do (but couldn't due to all the outside distraction/overstimulation) in order to escape boredom."
- WA 7y agoThat makes sense. If I just stay bored, I probably start daydreaming and nothing comes of it.